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By Arun Srivastava A concerted effort is being made by various farmers and peasant organisations to float a new movement, different in character and dynamics from the one in seventies, when the peasants agitation and farmers movement were two different streams. While the peasants movement symbolised the...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: A visit by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to the RSS headquarters in Bhopal past midnight gave rise to the speculation that alarm signals are coming about the critical position of party candidates. Before the chief minister’s visit party president Amit Shah too held...
By Nantoo Banerjee Time was when approval of public issues or initial public offerings (IPOs) by the market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), were taken seriously by both equity share issuers and investors. More so when they came with big premium tag. Companies were...
By Sushil Kutty The United States announces a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual who committed, conspired, aided or abetted the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and Prime Minister Narendra Modi says at an election rally in Rajasthan four...
Aditya Aamir Justice (retd) Markandey Katju wants a statue of LK Advani at the centre of Connaught Place in New Delhi “with this line from the Ramcharitmanas inscribed on it in gold ‘Taat Laat Ravan Mohe Maar.” Katju says this on his Facebook page. But he spells...
By Aditya Aamir The Hindu caste system and its tyranny is the talk of the town globally after Jack Dorsey sat down with a bunch of women journalists and unknowingly or knowingly placarded ‘Brahminical Patriarchy’ and got smashed for holding a view not voiced in India . Post...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-RSS combine is in an angry mood. Understandably so. The reason for their irritation is clear: Both the Left Democratic Front Government (LDF) and the Kerala High Court have called their Sabarimla bluff. For once, the government has shed its ambivalence on...
By John Haylett Israel’s next general election isn’t due until November 2019, but an early poll is virtually certain given the outbreak of now traditional mutually antagonistic willy-waving engaged in by would-be prime ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition. No election is complete without party leaders accusing each...
By Sam Pizzigati Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school dropout, had no interest in taking the ride. “Voting,”...
By K. Raveendran It defies all logic that in a country where burning an effigy of a political leader or official does not constitute a criminal offence, a simple protest by waving black flags leads to arrest and incarceration. Waving black flags is probably the most innocuous...